Integral Index is a New Way to Assess Men Fertility

Reproductive potential of men is assessed according to spermatograms results obtained relying on macro- and microscopic investigation of sperm sample. This approach does not make it possible to have integral index that is equivalent to healthy reproductive potential of a man as spectrogram indexes are compared separately with percent characteristics of normal standards.

The authors suggest calculating only active mobile and morphologically saved sperm cells after their pre-separation using floating up and centrifugation method in concentration gradient. It enables to have the index of absolute gamete number in 1 ml of ejaculate. The fertility threshold is the presence of gametes able to be fertilized (mobile and morphologically saved), 5 mn/ml in number. If the number of gametes is lower than the threshold, other diagnostic tests and therapeutic modalities are required, while threshold elevation gives the evidence of man’s potential fertility.

Artifexov S.B., Sergeev М.Y., Borodacheva I.V., Artifexova М.S. Integral Index is a New Way to Assess Men Fertility. Sovremennye tehnologii v medicine 2011; (3): 106